If You're So Smart Then Why Are You Dead

Season 2 episode 7. Flashback 1987 Shawn is playing chess with Henry and is taking a long time to decide where to go. Henry tells him to focus and think. Shawn doesn’t have to think hard and checkmates Henry. Present day, Shawn has taken “is my boyfriend cheating on me” cases. When he is going back to the office Shawn tells Gus that they have a meeting at 2:00 and Gus says its 2:18. When Shawn and Gus get there their clients are a pair of kids. They take the case and go to the school. Meanwhile, it is Lassie and Jules’s 1 year anniversary for being partners. She wants to take the lead on the case so Lassie gives her the same one Shawn and Gus are working on. Shawn and Gus are at the school they see Lassie and Jules. Lassie is teaching her all the lessons of being a head detective. She tells Shawn to not get involved with the case and stay out of their way (to make Lassie not lecture her). Shawn’s reaction was like what? She is like sorry (without Lassie noticing). Then Shawn and Gus go talk to the janitor and he says something about a gold pin. Shawn and Gus find the pin in the lost and found. Gus knows it was a calculus symbol (oh and I forgot to mention this was a school for genius kids, and Gus applied there when he was 10). Shawn and Gus go to the teachers’ lounge but there are no math teachers. They go to talk to the gym teacher and they find out that the calculus teacher was in the gym teacher’s carpool. Shawn and Gus carpool that day and talk to the professor a little bit. The next day at their lecture the math professor is there. Shawn proves he is a psychic. And he also thinks that the professor is the killer. Meanwhile Jules gives Lassie a bunch of files to go through and he is like I’m not doing this and she is like yes you are. The next morning (murder day) it is Gus’s turn to drive the carpool. When they get to the professor’s house it is burned down and he is dead. Of course Lassie and Jules are there too. Shawn figures out that it was murder. Tells Jules and she believes him. She interviews the kids again and they don’t give her much. Back at Henry’s house the nerd kids fix his computer and hack the Juvenile Detention database. They find out that one of the kids at the school is actually 30 stole an identity of a kid who died. Shawn leads Jules to the discovery and solves the crime in front of his class. Jules gets to cuff the guy and says thanks to Shawn for helping her. In the end Shawn bought Henry ne chess pieces and played a game with him. Shawn wins he gets the truck for a week. Henry wins Shawn washes the truck for a week. Gus finally got a hold of his parents and is very upset with them. Shawn wins chess and then leaves.